Torah

Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest

2013-05-10 03:24:00

JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...

The stars align for kabbalah

2011-10-18 00:00:00

Second of two parts When Philip Berg decided in the early 1970s to teach kabbalah to the masses, he predicted that orthodox rabbis would stone him and his wife, Karen. For a long time, that seemed a pompous overstatement. Few people had even heard of the...

Shavuot: A feast for body and soul

2011-06-02 00:00:00

Last weekend, we left the city behind and drove about an hour south to my mother-in-law's kibbutz to see the rolling fields of ripening wheat ready to be harvested just before the Shavuot holiday, exactly like it was in ancient times. Shavuot, starting...

Tonight in jazz: Steven Lugerner's music beyond words

2011-05-25 16:33:40

A harvest festival -- where else? On a farm

2009-09-25 16:32:34

Boys' basketball: Valley Torah has a standout

2009-12-03 21:34:38

Boys' basketball: Monday's scores

2009-12-08 16:34:34

Boys' basketball: Tuesday's scores

2009-12-09 16:34:34

Boys' basketball: Wednesday's scores

2009-12-10 16:34:34

Boys' basketball: Thursday's scores

2009-12-11 16:34:43

Boys' basketball: Southern Section playoff pairings

2010-02-14 16:34:48

Boy's basketball: Wednesday's Southern Section playoff results

2010-02-18 16:34:51

Samaritans pray on Mt. Gerizim near the northern West Bank city of Nablus during celebrations of the Shavuot festival.

2010-05-05 00:00:00

Alexander Sisro, center, regards the Torah with Rabbi Amram Gabay, left, during his posponed bar mitzvah.

2009-10-29 00:00:00

Dr. Joel Kushner, left, and Rabbi Richard N. Levy unroll the Yanov Torah during a ceremony at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion near USC. The Torah survived the Holocaust by being cut into pieces, hidden during the war and reassembled afterward.

2008-11-06 00:00:00